Writing

I've been writing since I was eleven. I wasn't very good at that point, but I like to think I've improved. I was first paid for non-fiction in 1999 and my first published fiction work was in 2007 - a short story called By Zombies; Eaten in GUD Magazine Issue 2. I have independently published four highly-regarded novels: the II AM Trilogy of urban fantasy books, and the Young Adult science-fiction novel The Broken God Machine.

Novels

Elixir
His country is shattered. His city is dying. Clay Foster is fighting a losing battle against the dark tide that threatens to engulf Brooklyn. Science stopped the rising of the ocean waters at seven meters, but it has found no answer for Elixir. The drug has infiltrated every stratum of society.

Terry is dead. at first he believed his wife’s death was an accident, but then he found The hair … [more]

The Broken God Machine
Pehr is sixteen, strong and fit, about to take the Hunter's Test and become a man when a horde of vile beast-men known as the Lagos descend upon his village. He finds himself thrust into an unlikely adventure, journeying through jungles, mountains and plains to find the land of the ancients and the advanced technology they left behind … [more]

The Blood That Bonds
Two is Trapped. She’s hooked on heroin, held as property, forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Time brings her ever closer to what seems an inevitable death and Two waits, uncaring, longing only for the next fix. That’s when Theroen arrives. The only problem? Theroen is a vampire … [more]

Blood Hunt
It's been six months since the events of The Blood That Bonds. As Two Majors and Tori Perrault struggle to adapt to their new realities, they are drawn into a world that neither knew existed. Two must deal with the machinations of the vampire council, while Tori must make a decision that will change not only her life, but the lives of all of the vampires in America, and perhaps the world … [more]

The Children of the Sun
Two and a half years have passed since Blood Hunt, and in that time a fragile peace has been maintained by the American council of vampires and their allies. Two Majors has spent the years focusing on rebuilding the life that was torn away from her. When the Children of the Sun, the militaristic cult of vampire hunters, strike at a trio of vampires visiting Chicago, the peace is shattered … [more]

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Length: 550 pages

Series: II AM Trilogy Book 3

Pulse

When Raine pulls herself from unconsciousness and rises up off the cold marble floor of the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, she finds that her city has been transformed as she slept. Gunfire, screams, and a strange singing echo in the streets, and grim horror awaits her as she journeys out into the broken, chaotic world that she used to know. Still, all of this is nothing ... nothing at all, compared to the thing in the sky. Is it new? Or has it always been there, and only now can she see it?

Genre: Science Fiction

Length: Roughly 450 pages

Series: Untitled Series Book 1

Status: Pending

Divergence Point

Humanity picked a fight with the first alien species it encountered, and those aliens kicked humanity’s ass. That was twenty-five years ago. Things have been difficult since.

Askana Liáng has never known anything but the life shaped for her by her Ymmrii masters. They’ve made her into a weapon and pointed her at their enemies. For years she’s struck without considering anything other than their desires. Now, something has unlocked within her mind, and a compulsion she can’t resist bids her return to the human race. Two words have been seared into her brain: “Come Home.”

David Ashe spent twenty years in the resistance before he was finally captured. Now he’s trapped, slaving away in an asteroid mine until his body finally fails him and brings about his execution. Fortunately, he possesses a nearly singular talent: the ability to work with low-level Ymmrii code. That makes him valuable … and someone wants him.

Martin Trujo was born after the war. For him, a city full of Ymmr, Zhaksarai, Shenj-tzu, and Hjarad is merely the status quo. It’s the AI grafted to his brain that’s unusual. Not that he has any way of investigating it; poverty and isolation on humanity’s most distant colony make anything beyond the scrabble for survival nearly impossible. Plus, now he’s got this whole murder accusation thing to deal with.

The assassin, the terrorist, and the hacker, recruited by a government that doesn’t technically exist and tasked with a mission that few believe can be accomplished. The fate of humanity rests on their shoulders.

If only they liked each other.

Genre: Science Fiction

Length: Roughly 400 pages

Series: Untitled Series Book 1

Status: Querying Agents

Possessed

Some girls go to college after graduating high school. Amber joined a cult. It was all fun and games until the new guy showed up with the book and started ordering people around. Now she's about had her fill of demonic rituals, especially after that last one. That whole thing was stright-up weird … even before the voice started speaking in her head.

Genre: Modern Fantasy

Length: NA

Series: Standalone

Status: First Draft Started

The Werewolf at the Window

When the werewolf broke down her front door and killed her parents, thirteen year-old Morgan Skylark was supposed to die, too. Instead, she found within herself an inexplicable ability to focus to the point that time seems to slow. Now, the werewolf lies at her feet, a smoking silver letter opener punched through its throat, and behind her stands a man who will invite her to be trained as he has: to find the monsters that prowl the world, to study them and, when necessary, to hunt them down. Morgan embarks upon a new life as a monster hunter, but there is a problem: Morgan Skylark was supposed to die, and someone out there knows it.

Genre: YA Modern Fantasy

Length: Roughly 300 pages

Series: Monster Hunters Book 1

Status: On Hold

Novellas

These were originally published serially on my old blog, back in the mid-2000s. I've cleaned them up a bit, but they're not at all up to the standard of my published work. Still, many people seem to like them, so I've made them available here!

Voices - FREE PDF - The story of a group of young adults living in New York, each blessed with an extraordinary power, and how they come together in an attempt to "do the right thing" with their talents.

Persephone's Fall - FREE PDF - A modern retelling of the Greek myth, the story features Persephone, Hades, Zeus and Demeter, but takes place in modern Manhattan. I originally created illustrations for each update, and may some day hire someone with more talent in that department to re-work them.